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"Wall of Atmos. Everyone, build the wall! Rocks are flying! We have to hide behind the walls."
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The next moment after Lassen drilled a hole in the bedrock, the ground rumbled.
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A thudding sound and vibration echoed from the ground, and the next moment a large pillar of fire rose up.
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At first glance, I realized that the well drilling had failed for some reason, and immediately raised my voice.
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The people around me seemed to be able to react to it, thanks to the propagation of my voice, which was filled with magical power, almost like [intimidation].
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Many of the river replacement workers here have come to work in search of jobs, but some of them are Orientals who went to the battlefield with me.
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First of all, they must have responded to my voice unconditionally to protect themselves.
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They put their hands on the ground and used [Wall of Atmos] and [Wall Building], which were available for each of them.
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Thanks to that, uneven walls were erected one after another on the flat land that had been cleared and had a good view.
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Rocks and other debris from the sky hit these walls with a terrible thumping sound.
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It was a good thing that we had kept our distance from the hole, just in case.
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Once the fire column rose from the hole, the rock spewed out from the ground at the same time, and it was drawing a parabola when it fell down to the ground.
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Therefore, the rocks did not fall from directly above, but flew at an angle and were blocked by the wall.
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But it was a terrible force.
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The burning red rocks crashing against the wall, perhaps because they were accompanied by a pillar of fire, made me feel more in danger of death than on the battlefield.
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"Check the wounded. Those who can move, carry the wounded and retreat. Hurry up!"
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After a few moments of fear behind the wall, he gives his next instruction when the time is right.
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The eruption of rocks seems to have calmed down a little now.
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The sound of rocks slamming against the wall has decreased.
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We let those who are unlucky enough to be injured be carried by those who are not injured, and we move further away from them.
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I wonder how far away they should be.
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"Valkyrie. Sorry, go run around there and add to the wall."
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"Cue."
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In the meantime, I asked the Valkyrie to use her magic to make us a little safer.
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We can't use magic because we won't be able to touch the ground as we run away.
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On the other hand, the Valkyrie can use magic while moving.
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I ask the Valkyries to build the Wall of Atmos while running around, so as to close the gaps in the cluttered walls that have been built here and there.
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And seeing this, I decide to retreat as well.
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"Mister Lassen, what the hell is this? I thought the oil was supposed to blow up?"
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"I don't know. If it was a water well, it would have been safe enough, or at least safe enough to scare us too much. ....... I didn't expect it to erupt like that."
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"Perhaps the problem was the high pressure in the enclosed space. Mr. Lassen, have you ever worked with such a large oil slick to pop it out of a long vertical hole all at once before?"
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No, no. Actually, it was the first time for me to remove oil from such a deep place. The fact that the oil was accumulated in the bedrock was also very special. I had some experience with a few cases where the oil was a little shallower. ......"
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"Does the Eye know what caused that?"
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"No. It needs to be verified. But one of the possibilities can be formulated as a hypothesis.
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"Explain it to me."
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"Yes. It is possible that the oil passing through the vertical hole ignited due to the pressure and friction as it rose. And it spread to the oil in the ground at once. It is possible that the oil burned in the ground and then spewed to the surface in search of an exit."
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"...... Is that possible?"
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"I don't know. However, it has been reported that a phenomenon called "sudden boiling" occurs when a liquid in a test tube is heated. As the spouting of liquid due to rapid heating has been recognized as a phenomenon, we cannot deny the possibility that this phenomenon may also occur with underground oil.
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"Hmmm. But what is it then? You mean all the oil in the ground caught fire. Isn't it impossible to recover the oil now?"
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I don't know, but it looks like the oil burned.
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It's just bad luck that it caught fire when the fire ban was strictly enforced on the ground.
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I'm sorry. I never thought it would cause such a blunder. ....... How can I take responsibility ......"
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"Don't worry too much, Mister Lassen. It would be a shame if we couldn't get oil, but we can just plant some oilseed rape somewhere and squeeze it out."
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"But, however, there has been some damage, hasn't there? I have no way to compensate for that."
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"Well, if you're that concerned about it, I'll have you punished for it later. Well, we didn't lose much money, so I think we'll be fine.
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It looks like some people got hurt, but it's the fault of those who stayed behind to observe in the first place.
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It's a shame that they can't get more oil, but that's all.
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The Valkyrie, having finished building the wall, comes back to me and I get on her back.
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I look backwards as my head is higher than the others.
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It seems that no more rocks are going to come flying at us.
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It seems to have been a spur-of-the-moment problem.
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Just in case the fire does not spread, we need to check the site a little more, don't we?
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I would like to know what happened to the hole that Lassen made.
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After a short retreat, I decided to stay there for the rest of the day and check the site the next day, after I was sure that I had escaped to a safe area.
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